In a last post I discussed my little flying object detector project that I’ve been doing for fun. While it worked it relied on communication with an external laptop in order to work (the on board odroid was not powerful enough to run the convnet model).
Hence, what better excuse to buy an NVIDIA Jetson TK1 dev board which should have more than enough juice to run everything on board the drone itself. I then added websocket support to track detections in real time.
It took some fiddling to get the wifi to work with the Jetson and Im still surprised at how quickly the wifi degrades (even though Im using the 5GHz band to avoid collisions with the Tx/Rx). But it did work in the end.
Still lots to do and too little time, but we keep chipping away. In particular the awesome folk from ErleBotics were kind enough to send me a Brain2, looking forward to try that out as well.
Original post: http://dirkgorissen.com/2015/12/24/deep-drone-v2
--Dirk
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Nothing like a good sandwich box :)
@benbojangles: its "DIY" drones right? :) And yes, I unfortunately I dont live next to Yosemite. Given the brief window allotted to me by the weather & missus it was all I could do :)
Nicely done!
I think this is the most psychedelic/trippy post on Diydrones I have ever seen. :)
Congrats on getting the TK1 in the air. :)
sandwich box lid? :)